Airplane struck by lightning sends 7 people to hospital after being diverted to Dulles International

Seven individuals on a Lufthansa flight experienced “significant turbulence” over Tennessee, resulting in the plane being diverted to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. where the passengers were then sent to nearby hospitals. The husband of one of the passengers took to Twitter to state that lightning had struck the plane and it had dropped 1,000 feet. In response, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) started an investigation into what happened on the Airbus A330, which …

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